VAGZ TWO
Frosh On Dates Must Wear
All Customs, Barkley Orders
Freshmen have been dating for
one week, and new Lloyd Barkley,
Tribunal chairman has an omin
ous note to inject into the pro
ceedings. Freshmen are required
to wear the full customs, con
sisting of green dink, white socks,
freshman handbook, and matches,
on all dates, he warns.
Tribunal requests the co-oper
ation cf all upperclassmen, with
special emphasis on hat societies
and their members, in helping to
enforce these customs, Barkley
said. Not one freshman violators
name has been left at Student Un
ion the past week, he said.
Nevertheless, at the weekly
meeting Wednesday night, Tri
bunal tried and punished three
frosh, including its favorite fresh
man offender, Robert Kagan. Ka
gan, up' before Tribunal for the
third time was found guilty of not
wearing white socks and will be
seen on campus with knee-length
white stockings embellished with
pink garters.
Dick Toller, who was convicted
of wearing no customs on a date,
will wear a bushel basket painted
green to look like a dink, in ad
dition t 6 a sandwich sign adver
tising finals week.
Dragging a tin can attached to
his belt, Wearing his clothes back
wards, carrying a flag on a stick,
and having his ears kept warm
with two dangling pieces of
toast, was the punishment levied
on freshman A 1 Diamond. .His
crimes were carrying another stu
dent’s Bible, and being disrespect
ful when questioned by an upper
classman.
Finish of European War
Will Not Improve Civilian
Supply of Gas, Rubber
The end of' the European war
will not alleviate the present short
age in gas and rubber immediately,
Amos E. Neyhart of the College
warned today, in appealing for
continued observance of war-in
spired conservation measures.
'Professor Neyhart, administra
tive head of the Institute of Public
Safety at the College and consul
tant on road training for the
American Automobile Association,
paid “the military will need all
the gas and rubber they can get”
•for the Pacific war.
“This is no time to forego rules
and regulations,” the Penn State
expert cautioned, adding “we will
r.ll return to a peacetime basis
faster if we observe wartime pre
cautions.”
Professor Neyhart, who has just
3 eturned from a three-month
teaching trip to the West Coast,
will emphasize conservation and
safety when supervisors of the na
tion’s motor vehicle fleets meet at
the College September 11 to 16
for their sixth annual short
course.
I>SCA Schedules
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array of the habits of birds, deei,
wildcats, bear, and fish.
After the program, dancing will
be featured in the Hugh Beaver
Room. AH freshmen interested in
this program are invited to attend.
Rocltview Prison Trip
The men cf the Freshman Coun
cil will leave on a supervised tour
to the Western State Penitentiary,
at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, September
16 and again at 3:45 p.m. the same
day. Upperclassmen are invited
to attend. Transportation will be
provided at a cost of twenty-five
cents per person, round trip. This
amount is payable upon the pur
chase of a Rockview Trip Ticket
at the PSCA office. The group
will be limited to 50 men so those
who wish to go, should buy their
tickets and sign up.
Tom Reid, chairman of the
Service Committee of the Coun
cil, is 'leader and head organizer.
Dr. Taylor Speaks
In Chapel Sunday
“A Great Time to Live” is the
topic of the address to be de
livered in Chapel Sunday by Dr.
Harry B. Taylor, First Presbyter
ian Church, Syracuse, N. Y.
Dr. Taylor graduated from
Glenville State Teachers College
in 1931. During his junior year he
was chairman of the Middle At
lantic Field Council for the stu
dent YMCA and during his sen
ior year was chairman of the Na
tional Council of Student Christ
ian Associations.
From 1931 to 1934 Dr. Taylor
was field secretary for the Stu
dent Christian Association Move
ment in New England and secre
tary of the National Preparatory
School Committee, conducting re
ligious work in preparatory
schools and colleges and directing
student conferences.
In the summer of 1933 the cler
gyman traveled to Europe to rep
resent the Student Christian As
sociation Movement of the United
States at international. student
conferences in England, Germany,
and Switzerland. Union Theolog
ical Seminary in New York or
dained Dr. Taylor in 1936. While
at the seminary he served with
the Rye Presbyterian Church.
Brick Presbyterian Church in
New York City was Dr. Taylor’s
first pastorate. On September 1,
1939 he was invited to his pres
ent post at the First Presbyterian
Church in Syracuse,
The choir, direct 4a by Mrs. Wil
la Taylor, will sing “Praise” by
Rowley. •
Hoffman Discloses
Ratio Of Graduates
Increases 12-to-l
There are twelve graduates to
day for every one graduate of the
College during the first years of
the institution’s founding, a study
by Registrar William S. Hoffman
disclosed today.
His research disclosed that it re
quired 73 years, from 1855 to 1928,
for the College to. graduate its first
10,000 students. It took nine years
for the second 10,000 to graduate,
and only six years for the third
10,000 to earn their degrees.
The total number of degrees
conferred from the founding of the
College up to and including the
21 st summer session commence
ment on August 4 of this year was
20,987, of which 26,665 were bach
elor degrees, 3541 master’s de
grees, 336 technical degrees, and
445 doctorates.
Registrar Hoffman said the num
ber of degrees conferred on men
reached 24,669 in August of this
year. The number conferred on
women during this same period
was 6,318.
Dieiz Asks for Pictures
More information concerning La
Vie pictures has been released by
Fred'Dietz, editor of La Vie. .
The year book is being made up
for this semester and next. All
campus organizations should have
group pictures taken at their own
expense, as there are no La Vie
funds • available for this purpose.
These pictures will be collected by
La Vie sometime during the next
semester.
Immediate co-operation from all
groups is urged.
Attention, Seniors
There will be a meeting for
eighth semester students in 318
Old Main, 7 p.m. Thursday to
discuss plans for class day, pic
nic, and graduatien. •
THE COLLEGIAN
General Eisenhower
Takes Orders From
Penn State Graduate
Probably the only flight officer
to give orders to General Dwight
D. Eisenhower is Jerome A. Freed
man, ’3B, member of Beta Sigma
Rho.
It happened in North Africa
where the Wilkes-Barre flight of
ficer was detailed to fly America’s
top European commander on a
non-combat mission. General Eis
enhower was curious about the
operation of the plane, so Flight
Officer seated the commander in
front of the controls.
For the next few minutes, the
four-star general, like any fledg
ling flyer, obeyed Freedman’s or
c ers.
Other dignitaries the pilot trans
ported during 20 months in the
European and American theatres
include General Sir Andrew Cun
r.ingham, Br stihi WPj
mngham, British chief of naval
operations, and General Sir Har
old Alexander, commander of Al
lied ground forces in. Italy.
Flight Officer Freedman has
been sent to Army Air Forces Re
distribution Station No. 2 in Mi
ami Beach, Florida, for a medical
examination. The alumnus will be
assigned to another duty for which
l.e is best fitted.
H New Reservists
Arrive On Campus
Arrival of 76 new reservists
Tuesday will boost to 328 the
number of student-soldiers now
enrolled at the College for special
instruction under the Army Spe
cialized Training Program.
The reservists, including 50
from the Air Corps Reserve, are
17-year-olds who will go to camps
for basic military training when
they reach their 18th birthdays.
The 17-year-olds now on the
campus number 129.
Since the ASTP program was
first started at State in May 1943,
approximately 1500 men have
been schooled in electrical, me
chanical, civil, chemical, and ba
sic engineering. A few have also
pursued pre-dental and pre-med
ical work.
More than 6000 have been train
ed for specialized tasks at the
College since the various military
and naval progrems were first in
stituted in January 1941. At the
present time nearly 1000 are en
rolled in the ASTP and Navy V-12
programs.
Two College Herd Cows
Sel Butferfa! Record
Two registered Holstein-Friesian
cows in the College dairy herd
have recently completed official
lecords of more than 600 pounds
of butterfat, announces The Hol
stein-Friesian Association of Am
erica.
Penstate Inka Doris was the
higher producer of the two with
i record of 707 pounds of butter
fat and 17,933 pounds of milk. This
is nearly four times the production
of the average dairy cow in this
nation. The record was made in
305 days on four milkings daily
and at the age of six years, five
months.
Penstate Veeman Josie was the
ether high producer with 634
pounds of butterfat and 18,402
pounds of milk, made in 305 days
on four milkings daily and at the
age of ten years, seven months.
Alumni Number 35,000
Alumni Association at present
mails news of campus events and
of former Penn Staters to 30,000
graduates and approximately 5,000
who did not complete their educa
tion.
September issue of Penn Stater,
a four-page newspaper; is mailed
to the alumni four times a year.
The magazine, Alumni Hews,
"which is published seven .times' a
year, will be released in October:
'Daddy' Groff Teaches Chinese
But Learns From Them As Well
G. W. “Daddy” Groff, until re
cently dean of the College of Ag
riculture at Lingnan University
in Canton, China, told approxi
mately 60 students and faculty
members in Sparks Building Wed
nesday night that his heart was
in China.
Through his close association
with the Chinese people, the for
mer Penn |3tate student .told the
audience that he has grown to
admire and respect the people.
His motto, Daddy Groff said, has
been to try to learn from the Chi
nese people as well as to teach
them.
His results speak for them
selves. Largely through the pi
oneering Daddy Groff has dpne
for agriculture in China, the Min
istry of Education has opened
more agricultural schools. The en
tire country has been divided into
ten regions, in each of which one
agricultural college is to be set up.
The fact that there are at present
27 agricultural schools, as com
pared to the 17 which existed be
fore the war, testifies to the ad
vancement China has made in
this direction. In addition, there
are now five agricultural research
institutes which have been open
ed by various universities.
Tracing his interest in China to
his first trip abroad, Daddy Groff,
then a college sophomore, return
ed eager to do some work tlrere.
After three years of instructor
ship at Lingnan University, he
got the vote of confidence he had
been waiting for.
Various foundations interested
in foreign education, chapel do
nations, and endowments helped
Lingnan to expand. “But,” Daddy
said, “the Chinese have also done
a great deal, more than the Amer
icans. They have built ‘buildings,
endowed the school with facilities,
and supported the university by
paying a high fee for tuition.”
With the Japanese invasion of
Canton in 1938, the agricultural
college was forced to relinquish
its buildings for new quarters in
Kwangtung province. Since then,
a new location for the school has
been found in Kukong, although
considering the fighting now going
on in this sector, it is likely that
Lingnan will be on the move
again.
Before the war the university
boasted a number of Penn State
students who were studying un
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der the exchange plan. “It is a
system,” Daddy Groff ventured,
“that we are anxious to continue
after the war. It has proven in
valuable both to the American
students who traveled
abroad, and to the Chinese stu
dents whp have come to Penn
State to continue their educa
tion.”
In the interests pf horticulture,
arid his plqn for exchanging plants
with China, Daddy Groff insti
tuted a Lingnan Plant Exchange
Station in Sarasota, Fla. Through
this, numerous plants have been
sent to China, and Chinese plants
have been raised and tested on
Florida soil.
Following his talk, Daddy Groff
showed slides of Chinese scenes,
which he innterspersed with some
original poetic . quotations, and
some colored film of the Lingnan
Plant Exchange Station in Florida.
Nittany Parly fo Hold
Celebration lor Panar
Nittany Clique will hold a party
at Cody Manor, 301 S'. Allen street,
from 7:30 to 12 o’clock tonight, to
celebrate the election of Carmen
“Jess” Panar as freshman class
president.
■ Clique members and friends are
invited. 'There, will hg dancing to
records and refreshments consist
ing of punch “and cake will be
spr.ved. ' Clique Chairman Bud
Barefoot-is in charge.
Social' committee for - the cele
bration includes Jerry Ciaripcchi,
chairman, Joan Canby, Norma
Lash, Marie Macario, Salvadbre
Rocci, and ’Betsy Ross. ' ' ” -
Chaperones will be Miss Martha
Chubb and Miss Rebecca Heller
man.
Pan-Hel Names Officers
Helen- Barr was appointed sec
retary arid Ina -Shilin treasurer of
iPanhellenic Council at a meeting
Tuesday, Helen Martin, president
ot PanheUenic Council, has an
nounced. "
Ann Keller and Isabel Milligan
recently resigned as secretary and
treasurer respectively.
MpINTOSH IS TOPS
In 1942, a 5-acre Mclntosh block
yielded 7,397 bushels of apples in
the College orchards.